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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Simple Journey

I'm still in the urge to purge mode. When I am in this mode I look through the scraps that I keep next to my work table inSterilite drawers. I found these small drawers on sale at Meijer years ago and I love them.

I have a drawer for each color group:White, Vanilla, VellumGreensYellows/OrangesReds/ PinksBluesPurplesBlack/Browns/GraysPlus one for PreStamped or Punched and one for Patterned Paper.

The drawers are long enough to hold paper that is 8.5" wide and 5.5" long or in other words I can put half a sheet in these drawers so when I cut a sheet for one card I can put the other half in the drawer. That way when I'm in the "I want to create a card but not work too too hard" mode I can get card bases easily. It may not be a perfect system for everyone but it's perfect for me. What do you do with your paper scraps? How small is worth saving? How do you store them?

I found each element for today's card in these drawers. I'm not that good at masculine cards but I think I did OK with this one. One great thing is that it's so simple. Most of the men I know prefer that there not be a lot of stuff on a card. It's distracting and they just want us to get to the point.

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